Founder | Perianne Boring |
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Focus | Business advocacy |
Method | Political lobbying, Advocacy, Public relations |
Website | digitalchamber |
The Chamber of Digital Commerce is an American advocacy group that promotes the emerging industry behind blockchain technology, bitcoin, digital currency and digital assets.[1][2][3][4]
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the organization was founded in July 2014 by Perianne Boring. In October 2014, the chamber received 501(c)(6) non-profit status from the Internal Revenue Service.[5] In 2015, economist and former JPMorgan Chase executive Blythe Masters was appointed to the advisory board.[6]
In December 2019, former Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Christopher Giancarlo was appointed to the advisory board of the chamber.[7]
The chamber is also interested in patent applications, particularly those filed by China concerning the digital industry.[8]
In August 2014, political news site The Hill reported that the Chamber had registered a political action committee with the United States Federal Election Commission. As The Hill piece noted, “formation of the PAC is a sign of increasing maturity for Bitcoin and a signal that politicians could face political pressure to support virtual currencies.”[9][10][11][12] To date, however, the PAC has only raised $10,000 of which only $2,700 has been contributed to a candidate.[13][14]
Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber of Digital Commerce.
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